Notebooks of William Dawes (MS 41645 c & d) : short vocabularies of the language of Indigenous peoples of Van Diemen's Land, collected by the officers of the French frigates La Recherche and L'Espérance in 1793
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Notebooks of William Dawes (MS 41645 c & d) : short vocabularies of the language of Indigenous peoples of Van Diemen's Land, collected by the officers of the French frigates La Recherche and L'Espérance in 1793
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[Anonymous]
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English
Dharug
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1 volume
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Paper

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Abstract:
Short vocabularies of the language of Indigenous peoples of Van Diemen's Land, collected by the officers of the French frigates La Recherche and L'Espérance in 1793.
General Note:
Van Diemen's Land is currently known as Tasmania.
Ownership:
Formerly part of the library of the Orientalist and linguist William Marsden (1754-1836), a portion of which he presented to King's College London in 1835.
Acquisition:
Marsden's manuscripts were transferred from King's College London to SOAS shortly after its foundation in 1916.
General Note:
A third volume collected with the Notebooks of William Dawes.
General Note:
Archivist's Note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Sources: Manuscripts in the British Isles relating to Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific, ed Phyllis Mander-Jones (1972); Fleeting Encounters: Pictures and Chronicles of the First Fleet (1995); British Library OPAC.

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SOAS, Univerity of London
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MS 41645 ( SOAS manuscript number )
MS 41645 c and d